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ROPE FASTENER.

No 321,799. Patented July '7 1885.

WITJV'ESSES .dttorney NITED STATES WATENT FFTCEO SILAS J. OBITES, OF ASHLAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO J. C.

' HISSEM, OF SAME PLACE.

ROPE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,799, dated July '7, 1885.

Application filed August 25. 1884.

' durability in use.

The invention consists in the improved construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

The drawing is a vertical section of a ropeelamp constructed in accordance with my invention.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents my improved clamp, which consists of two independent sections, B B, semicircular in cross section. These sections B B are provided on their inner sides or walls with in wardly-extending integral spurs or spnds O. The said sections B B are also provided near their upper ends with registering openings (No model.)

a, for the passage of a headed bolt, 1), threaded at its end to receive a nut, as shown, whereby said sections may be firmly and se curely held together. The lower ends of the sections B B are provided on their inner sides with beveled edges (1, and said seetionsare also formed with grooves in which a clamping-ring, E, is adapted to be seated. When the ring E is placed upon the lower ends of the sections, their opposite ends are pressed together and bolted, as shown, thereby preventing the displacement or detachment of the clamping-ring.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A rope-clamp consisting oftwo independent sections having spurs on their inner sides, a bolt securing said sections together at one end, the other ends of said sections being beveled on their inner sides, and a clamping-ring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SILAS J. GRITES.

\Vit-nesses:

F. C. SEMPLE, J. O. HIssEM. 

